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Big Baller Brand Announced Lonzo Ball Will Return To The Lakers Lineup On Friday

"My dad's not big on that, so just kinda focued on going there and getting out", he said. "All the money they generate for the programs and stuff, it's kind of an unfair system".

However, the discussion has changed a little bit after reports emerged in recent months detailing a pay-for-play scandal in college basketball where coaches would funnel money to players through shoe companies and then steer those same young men to agents.

Now, with the All-Star Break over, the latest Lakers news states that Ball is set to return to the court in the Lakers first game on Friday.

"Everybody's getting paid anyway". We had a game against the Rockets where I had 38 points and there was a point when they stuck him on me and it [got tougher to score].

When asked about the FBI's probe into the corruption of the NCAA and whether college athletes should be paid, Ball told NBC Los Angeles'Shahan Ahmed, "I do".

Ball spoke to the media as he prepares for Friday night's game against the Mavericks, his first action since suffering a knee injury January 13.

Fellow Lakers rookie Kyle Kuzma, though, was one of the players named in the Yahoo Sports bombshell report, but Kuzma did not meet with reporters on Friday morning to address the $9,500 he allegedly received from agents while at the University of Utah.

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